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Peter Walker‏Verified account@peterwalker99 24m24 minutes agoMoreDoing the Windrush media round this morning, David Lidington is trying to pin the blame on a/ policies of all governments from 1970s onwards and b/ a generalised institutional failing in Home Office. Both pretty disngenuous.

Sleep has been given that most modern of makeovers – it has been Goop-ified, given the clean-sleeping treatment , with Gwyneth Paltrow evangelising about making sleep a priority and her 10-hour-a-night ideal. People are being encouraged to douse vetiver-scented wellness oil between their toes or do a five-minute foam-rolling session right before heading to bed.

Ugh, might smell better than the catnip teas though.Possibly one for tc2?

Peter Walker‏Verified account@peterwalker99 24m24 minutes agoMoreDoing the Windrush media round this morning, David Lidington is trying to pin the blame on a/ policies of all governments from 1970s onwards and b/ a generalised institutional failing in Home Office. Both pretty disngenuous.

How long can they keep this up? I suppose they're hoping that the issue will move out of the spotlight.

I imagine that they feel that incompetence is a better look than malice.

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David Lidington, the Cabinet Office minister, told the Today programme this morning that the government is still not certain whether any Windrush-era citizens in the UK have been wrongly deported, my colleagues Peter Walker and Amelia Gentleman report. (Politics Live, Guardian)

Edited to add attribution.

Last edited by PorFavor on Tue 17 Apr, 2018 9:34 am, edited 1 time in total.

That unit that Rudd is setting up needs to start working pretty sharpish...

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David Lammy‏Verified account@DavidLammy 16m16 minutes agoURGENT @ukhomeoffice @theresa_may @AmberRuddHR my office has just received a phone call about the son of Windrush Generation citizen being deported TOMORROW. Halt this deportation and all further deportations immediately. Call my office for more details. Dominic Grieve is the MP.

That unit that Rudd is setting up needs to start working pretty sharpish...

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David Lammy‏Verified account@DavidLammy 16m16 minutes agoURGENT @ukhomeoffice @theresa_may @AmberRuddHR my office has just received a phone call about the son of Windrush Generation citizen being deported TOMORROW. Halt this deportation and all further deportations immediately. Call my office for more details. Dominic Grieve is the MP.

The government has been criticised over a leaflet for people it claims to be deporting to their home country, which includes advice to put on a local accent.

The guide, produced in 2013, offers a list of dos and don’ts for people being deported to Jamaica, including the tip: “Try to be ‘Jamaican’ – use local accents and dialect”. It also reveals the name of the Jamaican currency and the names of some major Jamaican television stations and newspapers.

Chris Leslie, you've every right to disagree with the Labour party leader and to work for the change your conscious dictates. I ask you to think how best to serve as a Labour party MP, working for nation and people now.Labour is a political party, not a religion, it's purpose is leading for everyone, not a few.You're Labour. I decline cutting up Labour into wings, I don't have the time or energy.I need all Labour people standing together as Labour now.We don't have to like each other, we have to work together.

Andrew #FBPE #PeoplesVote@AndrewStoneman 1h1 hour agoMore Andrew #FBPE #PeoplesVote Retweeted Carole CadwalladrThis is a major scandal. If an insurance company owned by a prominent backer of Leave used use its data to illegally target political messages, is a too much of a leap to imagine a pub co which recently deleted its social media presence did the same?

The Home Office destroyed thousands of landing card slips recording Windrush immigrants’ arrival dates in the UK, despite staff warnings that the move would make it harder to check the records of older Caribbean-born residents experiencing residency difficulties. (Guardian)

@JeffRookerj 3h3 hours agoMoreReplying to @wesstreeting @HouseofCommons @AmberRuddHRIn my brief year as Home Office minister I personally signed all deportation orders having read the background of each. Has someone changed the line of accountability ?

The former employee (who has asked for his name not to be printed) said it was decided in 2010 to destroy the disembarkation cards, which dated back to the 1950s and 60s, when the Home Office’s Whitgift Centre in Croydon was closed and the staff were moved to another site. Employees in his department told their managers it was a bad idea, because these papers were often the last remaining record of a person’s arrival date, in the event of uncertainty or lost documents. The files were destroyed in October that year, when Theresa May was home secretary.

Theresa May's immigration changes for UK citizens and their families continues causing hardship, stranded family members and fear.The citizen family has personal experience with it. Run through wheat fields, May. It's safer for everyone.

The former employee (who has asked for his name not to be printed) said it was decided in 2010 to destroy the disembarkation cards, which dated back to the 1950s and 60s, when the Home Office’s Whitgift Centre in Croydon was closed and the staff were moved to another site. Employees in his department told their managers it was a bad idea, because these papers were often the last remaining record of a person’s arrival date, in the event of uncertainty or lost documents. The files were destroyed in October that year, when Theresa May was home secretary.

Well, well...

I expect there's much more where that came from, too - given her length of tenure as Home Secretary.

Edited - typo, and to add:

David Cameron - wasn't he Prime Minister? I'd hate to lose sight of the fact that it was a Conservative Government in office, and that Theresa May wasn't acting in an overall policy vacuum.

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